to love you as I hoped;
I am not poor enough
to be loved by you as you wished;
let us forget each other-
you are forgetting a
name that is quite cruel to you ,
I am Forget the kind of happiness that I can't afford."
Do you feel familiar when you hear this passage? Yes, this is the dialogue between La Traviata and Armand in the works of Alexandre Dumas. If you know the whole story, you will understand the sadness behind these words. In the film version of "La Traviata", Greta Garbo used the godsend beauty and natural sadness to live the famous prostitute of Parisian high society in the nineteenth century.
Who is Garbo? When it comes to actors, everyone thinks of popular actors who are active on the front line. So, what about old movies in black and white? Everyone thinks of Hepburn, Bergman, and Vivien Leigh. But few people know Garbo.
Garbo was born in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, at the beginning of the last century. In 1924, at the age of nineteen, she made her first film in Hollywood. Since then, a filmmaker with a style and temperament incompatible with Hollywood has burst into people's eyes with her light. From entering Hollywood in 1924 and being a glorious moment, to her sudden resignation in 1941, La Traviata was one of her most famous roles in her short film career.
I was very young when I read the original "La Traviata", but I already knew how to cry for Margaret. When I grew up, I watched Garbo's La Traviata, relived those details, and still couldn't help crying. I finally discovered that some things can only be understood after the tempering of time. If we say that we shed tears when I was a child because of the tragic experience of sympathizing with La Traviata, now I feel sorry for Margaret’s sacrifice for love and the phrase "My heart is not used to happiness" before her death.
She has the beauty that falls for the world, but she has never had love. When she finally waited for love, she abandoned her handy wealth and glory for love and came to the countryside with Armand. She was finally able to breathe the air of happiness and comfort. The way Garbo is happy is moving. Anyone who looks at it hopes they can do something to keep this joy. But it is often so perishable. When Armand's father visited and asked her to leave him for his son's happiness and future, Garbo turned his back and looked out the window. When she turned around, she agreed to the father. She sacrificed her happiness and made Armand hate her and leave her. Seeing Garbo's heartbreak, our hearts seemed to be crushed. Because in her grief, there was never any resentment, always with an understanding of the world, kindness and compassion.
She said that my past life has made me have no right to dream of such a future. I must take responsibility for the consequences of my habits and reputation.
She has experienced it and pursued it. Just when she thought she was in heaven, she thought that happiness was within her reach, but she had to bury her happiness with her own hands.
There is a plot in the film. When the Baron is about to leave Paris, Garbo said: "What should I give you to make you remember me?" The Baron said, "The
only thing I want, you can't give it." "What is it?" "Tears "
Oh, in love, the only thing that cannot be accommodated is probably sincere. Maybe I can't give anything, the only thing I can give you is my tears. Or, I can give you everything, my body, and my joy, but I can't shed my tears for you.
The seriously ill Margaret was lying on the hospital bed, weak and pale, still thinking of her love, she didn't blame the unfeeling person at all, just wanted to see him again for the last time. On her beautiful face, there was a trace of anticipation in sorrow, despair in her anticipation, and a smile in despair.
Garbo has never been suitable for comedy, her temperament is tragic. She also laughs, but there is always a trace of sadness in her smile. It's not as simple as sadness, but as if with compassion for the world. Her thin lips, every different curvature, are interpreting an indescribable emotion.
In the real world, Garbo is an escape from the world. She has always been a mysterious topic in Hollywood. She lived alone and was single for life. Except for seeing her on the screen, people rarely understand Garbo in real life. She has a classic monologue: "Let me be alone for a while."
In a rare interview, Garbo said: "I am like a ship without a rudder, lost, lost and lonely. I am clumsy, shy, and nervous. , Fear. That’s why I built a wall around me, and I will always live behind that wall."
She has been immersed in the pleasure of being alone since she was a child. Garbo once said, "I don’t remember having When I was a teenager, I was really young and ignorant like other children. I always have my own opinion, but I never say it.
Some people commented like this: her beauty is abstraction and poetry’s dream beauty. She is like an iceberg, but it contains hot emotions like magma. She is the goddess on the screen and the only superstar of that era. She is the best invisible person in the world. She enjoys loneliness.
Someone commented that Jia Bao’s face is the limit of human evolution. Everyone has different standards, and maybe not everyone agrees with this sentence. But Garbo’s beauty is obviously full of attractiveness that is completely different from other movie stars. We love Hepburn, Because Hepburn is noble and elegant, like a goddess. We love Vivien Leigh because she is beautiful, agile, and like an elf. But Garbo is different. Her beauty is not joyful. She has high eyebrows and deep eyes, like an iceberg, and her lips are as sharp as Blade, sometimes chuckles, always with disdain. Her eyes are often half-closed, as if indifferent to world affairs. Her pupils are often in an unfocused state, making you unable to figure out what she is thinking. But when she Staring at you through the lens, you feel a shocking force again. What she reminds you of is not the goddess or the elves, but the queen. But her face glowed with serenity, brilliance, purity and transparency. Clear light. Her beauty is religious, holy and solemn.
Another pinnacle of Garbo, "The Queen of Sweden", is considered to be the annotation of her life. The screenwriter of this movie is Garbo's best friend, she Put Garbo's emotions on the queen, and many of the words spoken by the queen actually originated from Garbo. For example, the queen said, I will die alone.
There is a scene in the film: the queen gets up in the morning, wraps up her dressing gown and steps on the roof, grabs a handful of white snow and rubs it on her face. The queen said, I don't have free time, and sleeping is a waste of time. The queen said that getting married is a nasty thing, how can you endure being in the same room with a man? The queen said that the snow is like a wide sea, and one person may be able to walk out or get lost. Finally forget the world, forget himself.
The tragedy lies not in having never seen happiness, but in missing it after seeing happiness.
She pretended to travel and met Antonio, the Spanish envoy. The queen said, you are from a country that I am looking forward to very much. But I have never been, it only exists in my mind.
Antonio praised his country. He said that the gripping melody of love only exists in those homecoming homes with plenty of sunshine.
The queen smiled faintly, and responded: Great love, perfect love is an illusion. This is something we dream of, but it doesn't exist for mortals. The life of a mortal should be less demanding.
Here, Garbo seems to be acting herself.
During the wonderful time with Antonio, she wandered about every item in the room, carefully examining them, trying to remember what they looked like. She said that in the future, in my memory, this room will have too many memories of me. She probably knew vaguely that this was happiness she couldn't have.
Even if she is willing to give up the whole kingdom for love. She took off the crown herself and said to her people and homeland, farewell. But in the end, he can only return to his distant hometown with the bones of his lover. In the final close-up of the film, Garbo stands on the bow of the voyage, standing in the cold wind, staring at the sea and her destiny.
In every story that Garbo interprets, she is beautiful, kind, and gentle, and the people she loves also love her. But she still can't get happiness. We have to admit that there is probably something called destiny. In front of it, we are small, fragile, and weak.
In the end, Garbo, just as she said in the film, was single and died. The Camellia lady said when she was dying: "My heart is not used to happiness. Perhaps it is better to live in your heart, and in your heart, the world will not see me." Garbo lived in a simple life in his later years, wondering if there could be a world. Place her helpless soul, place her unaccustomed to happy heart, place her always melancholy blue eyes.
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